Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes

It's actually easier to do autobiographical stories. The story is already there. It's a matter of carving away what doesn't fit rather than building up from nothing.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

I can do a documentary on myself, and it would be, like, 10 minutes.

Everyone's always telling themselves stories about their lives, writers or not.

I don't think I necessarily am prepared to write about anybody else's life but mine.

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.

I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. I've got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible.

I'm not usually drawn to memoir - many run the risk of self-aggrandizement or score-settling.